Butter-cutter.



.No. 890,169. TATENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

W. H. & A. G. NOACIL BUTTER CUTTER. APPLIOATION TILED 001' 7 1907 I [H II II ATTEsT JNVENTORS (/71 7% William liNoacK.

S Y T T A UNITED STATES PATNT FXQE.

WILLIAM H. NOAOK AND ADOLPH Gr. NOAOK, OF CLEVELAND, OI-IIO.

BUTTER-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. NoAoK and ADoLPH G. N OAOK, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improve.

ments in Butter-Cutters; and we do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a butter cutter, and the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts substantially as shown and described and particularly point ed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cutter shown as secured to a bench or table. Fig. 2 is a pers ective view of the combined plunger and b ade or paddle. Fig. 3-is a vertical sectional elevation of the cutter front to rear, and Fig. 4 is a front elevation thereof with the projecting portion of the cutter frame broken off The idea of this invention is to provide a cheap and sim 1e butter cutter which is adapted to hand e butter in bulk or mass regardless of quantity, according to the size of the cutter, and differs from such cutters as require the butter to be made up in blocks, say in pounds as heretofore as is the common practice.

To these ends the invention comprises a supporting member A, adapted to be sccured to a table, bench or other support B, by clamp or otherwise and having a table or rest 2 of its own at its front adapted to receive the butter. .In addition to this the said support has a square, box-shaped receptacle 3 at its top and front directly over table 2, which is provided with a removable slidable bottom 4 adapted to be inserted and taken out from the front thereof. These several portions, the support A, table 2 and box 3 are preferably made of metal cast to the desired shape and size and usually nickel plated for clean finish. If it were made of aluminum the nickel would not be needed.

0 represents a cast metal cutting frame of skeleton form, constructed with parallel sides 5 having feet 6 channeled lengthwise inside to slide on ribs 7 on the edges of table 2 the full depth of said table to the rear flat wall 8 of sup ort A, while at the top said frame has a orward projection 10 of'substantially square form equal in depth to the distance said frame is to slide to the rearward in the cutting operation, and. the sides of which projection are slidably engaged on ribs 12 on, opposite sides of box 3. Said cross connecting portion at the front of frame C is necessary to make the sides unitary. Any suitable temporary stops may be employed to prevent said frame from being withdrawn further than necessary. Its limit to the rearward is the horizontal cutting wires 15 at regular intervals on frame C running back against wall 8 as a cutting surface. These wires are shown in this instance of a single wire run back and. forth from bottom to top over pins or projections 16 on sides 5 of frame C and tightened and fastened at the top by screw or its equivalent. The vertical slicing of the butter is done by wires 20 run at right angles to each other at the bottom .of box or receptacle 3, beneath false bottom.

D represents a combined follower or plunger and blade or paddle, the portion 21 representing the follower and adapted to enter the molding box 3 and force or press the butter down compactly therein, so that in effect it will be the same as if it had been made into a block in the first place, and when this is done, slide bottom 4 is withdrawn and the block of butter is forced down and out and is sliced by wires 20 as this occurs. This lands the sliced block together on table 2, when the block is cut horizontally into sizes presumably for table use by the wires 15. The frame C can then remain back with said wires against surface 8 until the butter is removed.

The paddle or blade 22 on member D serves to take the butter from a tub or jar and fill it into receptacle 3, so that the whole device is complete and has its own equipment to do all parts of the work.

0 viously, the parts are easily separable for cleansing and are constructed throughout for cleanliness and easy and speedy operation, and any unskilled erson can operate the device and assemble it for use.

Member A is pivotally connected with clamp part A by a shouldered joint connection (1, thereby adapting said member to either vertical or horizontal rest positions when forcing the butter through receptacle 3. Any suitable base or base support may be used in place of clamp part A, and said clamp or base support may be rigid with or an integral part of member A instead of being pivotally connected as shown, although the latter arrangement is preferred.

What I claim'is: 1. In butter cutters, a su port adapted to be fixed to a table or the li e and having a molding box at its top and a receiving table at its bottom and means to cut the butter horizontally and vertically.

2. A butter cutter provided with a box at its top adapted to mold butter into solid blocks, a receiving table beneath said box and cutters between said table and box at right angles to each other adapted to slice the butter vertically and horizontally respectively.

3. A butter cutter having a molding box for the butter provided with a slidable removable bottom and wire cutters fixed at the bottom of said box beneath said cutter, and a plunger in said box.

4. A butter cutter comprising a support and a molding box-thereon having a slidable removable bottom, and a fixed table beneath said box and separate therefrom, in combi nation with a slidable cutter frame rovided with horizontally arranged wiresarf apted to traverse the space between said box and table and cut the butter horizontally, and a plunger in said box.

5. A butter cutter having a box for butter provided with a removable bottom and fixed cutting wires beneath said bottom, a table beneath said box to receive the butter from the box, and a plunger in said box, in combinat10n with a cutter comprising a frame hav in horizontal cutting wires and adapted to slide over said table and a plain cutting surface between said box and table.

6. A butter cutter su port having a molding box and cutters fixe at the bottom thereof, in combination with a receivin table rigid with said box and a horizontal y slidable support mounted on said box and table and provided with wire to cut the butter horizontally on said table after it leaves said box.

7. The support provided with a vertical j.

, cutting surface at its rear, and a molding box above said surface and a receiving table for the butter beneath said box, in combination with a cutter frame horizontally slidable on said table and box and provided with cutters f i adapted to out against said vertical cutting surface. p

8. A butter cutter "having a receptacle to mold a quantity of butter into a solidblock,

and cutters to slice the block both vertically and horizontally, said box being pivotally supported and adapted to rest in either a vertical or horizontal position.

In testimony whereof we sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. NOACK.

ADOLPH G. NOAOK.

Witnesses:

' R. B. MOSER,

CHARLES W. PATTISON. 

